2018 Winter Olympics: Norway sets Winter Games record with 38 medals

The Norway team with Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen, Kristin Lysdahl, Sebastian Foss-Solevaag and Nina Haver-Loeseth celebrate winning the bronze medal during the Alpine Team Event Small Final.

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2018 Winter Olympics: Norway sets Winter Games record with 38 medals

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Updated: 3:28 AM EST Feb 24, 2018

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea —

These are the highlights as events continue in PyeongChang.

If you are planning on watching the events as they are broadcast stateside, you may want to avoid the following. Some have already been aired live.

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1

Switzerland wins gold in Alpine team event

Switzerland's Daniel Yule, left, leads Austria's Marco Schwarz on his way to clinching the gold medal in the alpine team event.

Switzerland has beaten top-seeded Austria to take the gold medal in the Olympic debut of the Alpine team skiing event.

Switzerland was up 2-1 in the final matchup when Swiss ski racer Daniel Yule wrapped up the win as Austrian Marco Schwarz skied out along the side-by-side parallel slalom course.

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Norway sets Winter Games record with 38 medals

Norway’s third-place finish in the new Alpine skiing team event at the Pyeongchang Games has given the country a record 38 medals at a single Winter Olympics.

Norway leads the medals table with 13 gold, 14 silver and 11 bronze. That breaks the record set at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics by the Americans, who won 37 medals.

Norway’s previous best medal haul at the Winter Olympics was 26, which they won at the 1994 Lillehammer Games and the 2014 Sochi Games.

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3

Four-man bobsled

Driver Nick Cunningham, Hakeem Abdul-Saboor, Christopher Kinney, Samuel Michner of the United States take a curve in the second heat of the four-man bobsled competition.

The team led by Cody Bascue finished with a time of 49.34 during the second heat and sits in 10th place, while the team led by Nick Cunningham finished with a time of 49.50 seconds and sits in 15th place.

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4

The Germans dominate

Driver Nico Walther, Kevin Kuske, Alexander Roediger and Eric Franke of Germany finish the second heat of the four-man bobsled competition. Both German teams took first and second place in the second heat of the four-man competition.

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5

Germany upsets Canada 4-3 in men's hockey tournament

Germany has upset Canada 4-3 in the semifinals of the men’s hockey tournament at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

Canada trailed 3-0 and 4-1 before battling back to cut the deficit to one in the third period Friday. Canada played the second half of the game without goal-scorer Gilbert Brule, who was ejected for a brutal hit to the head of Germany’s David Wolf at center ice.

Germany will play the Russians in the finals Sunday.

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6

Russia beats Czech Republic 3-0

Veteran goaltender Vasily Koshechkin stopped all 31 shots he faced to put the Russians into the men’s gold medal hockey game with a 3-0 shutout against the Czech Republic in the semifinals at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

Kontinental Hockey League star Nikita Gusev and Vladislav Gavrikov scored goals 27 seconds apart in the second period on plays Czech goaltender Pavel Francouz had little chance of stopping. Ilya Kovalchuk added an empty-netter with 20.9 seconds left to seal the Russians’ first trip to the gold medal game since 1998.

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7

Official: Russian bobsledder tests positive

The president of the Russian Bobsled Federation says a bobsledder whose crew finished 12th in the women’s competition has tested positive for a banned substance.

Alexander Zubkov says a drug-test sample that pilot Nadezhda Sergeeva gave Sunday was positive for a banned heart medication.

The women’s race was Wednesday. Zubkov says Sergeeva says she took no such medication and the team says she was not issued any medication.

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8

Swiss men win curling’s bronze medal

The Swiss men have won curling’s bronze medal, sending Canada to its worst finish ever in the sport.

Switzerland’s team of Peter de Cruz, Benoit Schwarz, Claudio Paetz and Valentin Tanner beat Canada 7-5 on Friday. Schwarz took out two Canadian stones with his last throw of the 10th and final end. With one throw left, Canada could not score the two points it needed to force an extra end.

Canada won the last three gold medals in Olympic men’s curling and had never even failed to reach the gold medal match since the sport was restored to the Olympics in 1998. The Canadian women also failed to medal — the first time they’d missed the podium.

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9

The Olympic gold medalist from Russia

In a Winter Games full of drama, the Olympic Athletes from Russia finally have a gold medal. Figure skater Alina Zagitova won the women's competition, topping her training partner, Evgenia Medvedeva.

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10

Ledecka wins 2nd gold medal

Ester Ledecka has won the second leg of an unheard-of Olympic double, taking the gold medal in snowboarding’s parallel giant slalom to go with her surprise skiing victory in the Alpine super-G earlier in the games.

The Czech star is the first to win gold medals in both sports. She is top-ranked on the snowboarding circuit but never a threat until now in skiing.

She outraced Selina Joerg of Germany to the line in the final and won by .46 seconds, a much more comfortable margin than the .01-second edge in the super-G race that left her staring at the clock in shock.

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11

Niskanen wins Finland’s first Pyeongchang gold

Iivo Niskanen has captured Finland’s first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Games.

He beat out Russian Alexander Bolshunov with a strong sprint to the finish in the 50 kilometer mass start on Saturday.

It turned into a two-man race with about 11 kilometers remaining as Bolshunov and Niskanen opened more than a 1-minute lead over the rest of the pack. But with just more than a kilometer remaining, Niskanen took off and Bolshunov had nothing left in the tank to catch him.

Niskanen won the marathon event in 2 hours, 8 minutes, 22.1 seconds — more than 18 seconds ahead of Bolshunov.